tumatanda ngunit bata parin..

the halo halo. a filipino delicacy. If the americans have their hot fudge sundae, the chinese have the shaved ice and fruits with mix beans, here we have the halo-halo. from the filipino word halo which means mix/or a variant, it could either be mix-mix, or mix-variant, or a variant-variant, you be the judge.

milky way's halo halo at powerplant

the usual halo-halo can have...

the "fillings" namely but not limited or does it contain all of the following: Kaong (sweet sugar palm), preserved coconut strips drenched in syrup, langka(jackfruit), leche flan (similar to egg custard), sweet banana, unflavored or sweetened gulaman (gelatin) in different colors, monggo beans, and ube hilaya. If there are toppings which I managed to forget, please do pardon me. sometimes sago or tapioca is also placed.

after all the sweet stuff is patted at the bottom of the tall glass, a nice snowfall of shaved ice is filled to the brim, poured over condensed milk or regular milk and sugar syrup, and if you're lucky, a scoop or two of ice cream (preferably ube) tops the whole thing with a flourish. (if not, regular ube hilaya or leche flan is on top).

i'm particularly picky when it comes to eating halo-halo. they don't call it halo for nothing. after you salvitate looking the the devious conction it takes another 2-3 minutes (5 if you're anal like me) to mix everything until the whole thing is purple from the ube. it is a messy and a fun thing to do to see layers of colors turn all purple. and such a satisfaction to cool of the hard mixing, a challenge not to drip or topple the ice cream off the glass, or splatter ice shavings everywhere.

Or you can be a goddamn jackass and eat it in the order you see it like i (the jackass) tried to, but there is not point since that is not the true essence of eating halo-halo.

something about milky way's halo-halo I liked, since eating the ice on their halo-halo isn't like eating glass shards. but like soft snow. it totally won me over.